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You're not immune to being the bully btw. You're not immune to being in the wrong

"But i'm-" there is no identity or state of being that makes you immune to hurting someone. You can be convinced that you are in the right for doing so. You can be convinced that you're defending someone by doing so. You have always got to examine if you're taking pleasure in hurting someone or if you're actually doing something good.

[Image text: there's actually no political label or identity that absolves you of doing harm.]

beauty standards are so fucked up what happened to i love your body because it's you. what then.

people get hotter the more you like them that's just science

moving apartments is the worst activity that exists

worst activity that doesn't exist is "infant tennis"

the main mental disorders people are really “”sympathetic”” to are depression & anxiety but even then it’s always abundantly clear that there is a very distinct limit to what society sees as acceptable and pitiable. and once someone goes over that it’s “what the fuck is wrong with you” and “why can’t you stop being like this” and. well you know

I really do quite like Minato. He is one of the craziest characters in the show except no one in cannon including Kishimoto realizes it. they all think he's sooo normal. this guy killed 5000 people in one day and then went home and made dinner for his beautiful wife and never thought about it again.

Would Minato politically assassinate and then ACTUALLY assassinate Danzou? Eventually, yeah probably, because Danzou would take it 'a step too far' for Minato to be comfortable with, probably with some plot involving his wife and/or child and/or Kakashi. Would Minato have any moral qualms about working with Orochimaru? Absolutely not. Not a single damn one.

Like the thing about Minato is. He is not A Normal Good Guy. He is the most successfully groomed child genius in the show. He is the ideal Hiruzen chased when he let ROOT be a thing in the first place. He's the most effective agent of the state in the show and that makes him, to many people, a god. He successfully indocrinates Kakashi and Kushina, two of the biggest security risks of the generation, into undying loyalty to konoha, and doesn't even realize he's doing that, he just loves them. he's just so naturally charasmatic. He's just never had a second thought about his country ever. Everyone trusts him and likes him and believes him when he says he's doing what's best. he thinks he's a good person. if you told him he wasn't allowed to do something he would actually LAUGH at you. He made himself into a living nightmare for entire countries in one night. He singlhandedly ended the war in doing so. He legitimantly thinks himself an advocate of peace and ignores the blood staining the bottom of his heavenly white coat. He blinks at you with his big ol baby blues in confusion as you demand justice for anything, and calmly explains it away. he's a genius. He DOES get mad at injustice, because he's a good person, obviously. He talks softly and carries a big stick. He loves his wife and his son so so so much and he wants nothing but the best for them, but he's selfish. He doesn't love them more then the village. He doesn't love them more then himself. He'd kill you for suggesting such a horrible thing about him, and so would Kushina. The absolute double think. I think Minato should read 1984.

had a good therapy session today during which my therapist suggested that one of my big existential problems is that I can’t give up the idea that my life has a Narrative Theme that I can’t identify

And her sister Phthalo Blue, another slam dunk for copper!

Don't forget about her distant cousin, Tyrian Purple

seeing gringos realize that imported products are more expensive is kinda baffling to me like what do you mean this is not the reality everyone was already living on?

cheap imported goods are already a luxury you must know this right? like you know it is thanks to imperialism and thanks to the US brutal oppression of other countries and of its international policies that destroy local economies that you get to have cheap coffee chocolate bananas etc? YOU KNOW THIS RIGHT? it is just very hard to feel for people who are so willfully ignorant none of this should be a surprise to anyone who is an adult with access to the internet you have refused to learn anything i have to laugh i have to giggle i have no other choice

Scrolled past this agakn and just can't get over how much I love it. We need to make things beautiful again and this is such a wonderful example. The beadwork on the wires of a utitarian object, contrasted with the grey concrete.

obsessed with how fixable society is, on a structural level.

obsessed with how all you need to do is throw money at public education and eliminate most standardized testing and you will start getting smarter, more engaged, kinder adults. obsessed with how giving people safe housing, reliable access to good food, and decent wages dramatically reduces drug overdoses and gun violence. obsessed with how much people actually want to get together and fix infrastructure, invent new ways of helping each other, and create global ways of living sustainably once you give them livable pay to do so. obsessed with how tracking diseases, developing medicines, and improving public health becomes so much easier when you just make healthcare free at point of use.

obsessed with how easy it all becomes, if we can just figure out how to wrench the wealth out of the hands of the hoarders.